Tyranny And Mutation - Blue Oyster Cult

'Tyranny and Mutation' sees New York rock band Blue Öyster Cult's progressive tendencies starting to break through to the surface, though it's still essentially a hard rock album at heart, with traces of what would ultimately come to be defined as heavy metal. Buck Dharma's guitar is mostly based in a blues-rock sound that can get a little repetitive and serves to date this more than the works of other bands of the time such as Black Sabbath, but his playing style is still sufficiently varied across this release to keep things interesting, particularly considering the album seems to have been consciously divided into opposing "red" and "black" sides ...  Read the complete review